Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

Creating an abundant, wonder-filled future by unlocking powerful materials and manufacturing technologies that don’t have a home in other institutions. spec.tech Joined November 2022

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

a month ago

@eileen_nakahata See the post on the Spectech newsletter: blog.spec.tech/p/dumbing-down…

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a month ago

Creating new research organizations involves communicating deeply technical ideas to a huge range of people. @eileen_nakahata compiled the most important lessons on effectively conveying technical ideas gleaned over years helping fellows start coordinated research programs.

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Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt

3 months ago

We just wrapped up the 2026 cohort of the Brains research accelerator! Our fellows are building programs to do everything from creating electronic noses to running challenges on AI-human teaming for better sensemaking to designing constantly-updating antibiotics.

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Christopher E. Wilmer @DrChrisWilmer

3 months ago

The Universal Robotic Nose Project (“Project URN”) is dedicated to building the first universal gas sensor so machines can have the sense of smell. Check it out! Please share with anyone you think might be interested in helping us make this a reality! youtube.com/watch?v=mZmIrJ…

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

4 months ago

@logangraham @nanransohoff spec.tech/brains!

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

5 months ago

At the end of the day, it's people who create science and technology. @di_goldene_pave founded Cosmic Frontier Labs to build a fleet of space telescopes designed to be produced, launched, and iterated on at a pace astronomy has never seen. open.substack.com/pub/parpa/p/po…

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Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt

5 months ago

An uncomfortable truth running under the current debates about science is that if a researcher can't fund their work out of their own pocket, someone else needs to feel like they're buying something valuable. blog.spec.tech/p/research-has…

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Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt

6 months ago

This is what @Spec__Tech is striving to be! (There are some prerequisite things on the tech tree we need to take care of first.)

Leonie Freisinger @lcfreisi

6 months ago

can someone just work full-time on cool utopian technologies like the warp drive, the utility fog or iron man’s self-assembling nanotech??? i like @Ben_Reinhardt takes pretty well here - accelerating engineering & manufacturing processes is (partially) a way there

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Andrey Poletayev @apoletayev

7 months ago

I'm super excited to go for bold science as part of the @Spec__Tech Brains accelerator! I am pursuing a mechanistic way of scaling up phase transformations with x-rays and simulations. Check out the cohort in their thread!

Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

7 months ago

@apoletayev is unlocking a new type of manufacturing data by tracking the paths of atoms as they assemble into materials during syntheses, especially if they do so rapidly.

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

7 months ago

You can read more about them and their work (and follow along) at blog.spec.tech/p/meet-the-202…

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

7 months ago

Will Plishker is developing a program that gives surgeons vision and skills beyond their innate human ability.

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Speculative Technologies @Spec__Tech

7 months ago

We're excited to introduce the 2026 cohort of Brains fellows! These ambitious scientists and technologists are working on ambitious coordinated research programs to create everything from electric noses, to bacteria-fighting viruses, atom-tracking cameras, and more. 🧵